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Vexing currency market observers, the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (NYSE: UUP) is down 8.4 percent year to date. That is an arguably stunning decline when considering the Federal Reserve has boosted interest rates twice this year. UUP, the exchange-traded fund proxy for the U.S....

Technology is the best performing sector in the S&P 500 this year, but health care is not far behind. Last year, health care notched its first negative performance on an annual basis since 2008, but the sector is rebounding in style in 2017. Health care's 2017 resurgence has been buoyed in...

While the S&P 500 has been solid this year, truly impressive equity market performances can be found in developed markets outside the U.S. That sentiment applies to ex-U.S. smaller stocks. U.S. small-caps have confounded investors for much of this year while their international counterparts are...

The strength being displayed by emerging markets equities and the relevant exchange-traded funds is getting harder to ignore. For example, dozens of emerging markets ETFs hit 52-week highs on Wednesday with one of those being an seasoned veteran among alternatively-weighted funds in this asset...

Charles Schwab Corp (NYSE: SCHW), one of the largest discount brokerage firms, said Monday it is expanding its Schwab ETF OneSource platform. Schwab ETF OneSource is already the largest commission-free exchange-traded funds offering in the brokerage space. Fifteen ETFs from nine different issuers...

The PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 (ETF) (NASDAQ: QQQ), the Nasdaq-100 tracking exchange-traded fund, is scuffling a bit as highlighted by a decline of more than 3 percent over the past week. Still, the tech-heavy fund is higher by almost 15 percent year to date, indicating that there has been...

Health care stocks and exchange-traded funds jumped last week as Senate Republicans unveiled legislation that would repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare." While some health care ETFs cooled on Friday, the PowerShares S&P SmallCap Hlth Cr Ptflo (NASDAQ: PSCH) was one of just...

Stocks have a less-than-stellar reputation in the month of June, as the S&P 500 often notches slightly negative returns in the sixth month of the year. That does not mean investors need to eschew equities altogether, but June gloom could mean emphasizing factors such as quality could prove...

Broadly speaking, commodities are a disappointing asset class this year, particularly when considering the U.S. dollar is one of the worst-performing developed market currencies. Commodities are denominated in U.S. dollars, meaning that when the dollar slides, commodities should do the opposite....

Investors have heard quite a bit of this lately: The energy sector is the worst-performing group in the S&P 500. However, the struggles of the S&P 500's seventh-largest sector weight are not uniform — certainly not among the exchange-traded funds tracking group. While ETFs that...